Upper respiratory tract infections evaluation of prescriptions
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Evaluation of the prescriptions written for upper respiratory tract infections
OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine frequency of antibiotic use and retrospectively evaluate prescriptions written for the patients with diagnosis of acute pharyngitis, acute nasopharyngitis and acute tonsillitis by our hospital emergency department physicians in January 2014. METHODS Records of the patients who were admitted to the education and research hospital between January 1st, 2014 to Jan...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Northern Clinics of Istanbul
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2148-4902
DOI: 10.14744/nci.2015.69885